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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Omega Followup II (Just when you thought it was really ported...)
Message-ID: <1990Dec26.184703.7237@agora.uucp>
Date: 26 Dec 90 18:47:03 GMT
References: <2790@ux.acs.umn.edu> <8bRH2yu00WAyE_QqoH@andrew.cmu.edu>
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In article <8bRH2yu00WAyE_QqoH@andrew.cmu.edu> rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski) writes:
:
::Argh! I got omega 1.0 from the nasa site. And, of course, it was a very
::nice bug-free version - which will not, under any known circumstances,
::run on a 3000. ARGH!
:
:If you read the docs file for 1.0 you should get the idea that the 1.0
:port was shaky at best, I wouldn't even call it close to bug free, but
:It was what I had time to do and figured that a so so port of omega is
:better then none at all.   BTW v 1.0 is quite old, I've had v1.3 (so
:named because I had tested it under 1.3) out for some time, not only
:is 1.3 far more bug free, but it is a LOT faster and has more features
:(I hacked up some custom fonts).    A few notes on version 1.0: I
:think that the reason that it doesn't work on the 3000 may be due to
:the version of lattice C it was compiled under (4.0 or so I believe),
:because version 1.3 works great under 2.0 on my 3000 with no changes.

	I think the confusion here is between the two seperate ports of
Omega. Yours is the one with custom, but still monochrome :-(, font and
is on version 1.3. It works on a 3000, but sometimes hangs during level
changes or saves. :-( The 1.0 being talked about here is a seperate port
that supposedly doesn't have the hung game problems, but doesn't have a
custom font at all, monochrome or color. The 1.0 version is the one that
doesn't work with a 3000, not yours.

://     Rick Golembiewski  rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu  \\
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